EFF to fight Parly suspension - Malema

Cape Town - The Economic Freedom Fighters will go to
court to fight suspension from Parliament, party leader Julius Malema said on
Thursday.

Malema said the party would give National Assembly
Speaker Baleka Mbete a deadline to give assurances that she would not move to
suspend its 25 MPs in the House, and should she fail to do so, seek an urgent
court interdict to prevent suspension from the legislature.

"We don't believe there is any basis for such a
suspension.

"We are going to apply for an urgent interdict,
interdicting her and Parliament from suspending us because we don't think there
are bases for any of us to be suspended.

"So we are all 25 of us going to approach the high
court individually."

EFF MPs on Thursday received formal letters from Mbete
asking them to motivate why they should not be suspended from Parliament for
disrupting a sitting last week.

"We received the letters today [Thursday] and we
have to respond by tomorrow," said MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi.

Last Thursday, the EFF defied orders from Mbete to leave
the National Assembly after they disrupted presidential question time.

They chanted that President Jacob Zuma should repay
public funds spent on his home in Nkandla.